Ryan Hendrickson
@imaginaryhistories.bsky.social
"You ever feel like nothin' good was ever gonna happen to you?"
"Yeah, and nothing did. So what?"
Archivist at Boston University for ~25 years, he/they
https://www.imaginaryhistories.com
"Yeah, and nothing did. So what?"
Archivist at Boston University for ~25 years, he/they
https://www.imaginaryhistories.com
The drivers want to speed and the cops really, really love asset forfeiture via traffic stops
the thing is that this is a function we could easily automate away and we just dont, for some reason?
Cops are jumpy during traffic stops because a bunch of cops get shot during traffic stops each year and they are trained to regard it as one of the most dangerous activities they can engage in.
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The drivers want to speed and the cops really, really love asset forfeiture via traffic stops
I've been at the same university for 30 years, first as a student then as a staff member, and at the uni library for 25 years; so here are my thoughts bout the current higher ed overlapping crises, that should be a blog post but I don't know if people read those anymore. 0/
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I've been at the same university for 30 years, first as a student then as a staff member, and at the uni library for 25 years; so here are my thoughts bout the current higher ed overlapping crises, that should be a blog post but I don't know if people read those anymore. 0/
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The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
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the first thought that comes to your mind when you see nazis saying 'destroy the trans people who give us bad grades on our homework' should not be 'what was the homework'
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the first thought that comes to your mind when you see nazis saying 'destroy the trans people who give us bad grades on our homework' should not be 'what was the homework'
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“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.
I think the previous, and maybe only, time this happened was the Democrat Huey Long in 1928?
Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically.
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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I think the previous, and maybe only, time this happened was the Democrat Huey Long in 1928?
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Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
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Trump is a drug kingpin, more and more people are saying it.
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Trump is a drug kingpin, more and more people are saying it.
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i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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As strange as it is to say, it is hard not to conclude that the value of knowing things — I don’t mean the value of *knowledge* in the abstract, or of this or that *type of knowledge*, but of *people knowing things* — is simply not a matter of consensus, even within institutions of higher education.
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As strange as it is to say, it is hard not to conclude that the value of knowing things — I don’t mean the value of *knowledge* in the abstract, or of this or that *type of knowledge*, but of *people knowing things* — is simply not a matter of consensus, even within institutions of higher education.
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I agree with sentiments I’ve seen expressed to the effect that the rush to generative AI is an opportunity to see best what is human; if human understanding isn’t the point of education then I don’t think there is a point to it. That said, it is only an opportunity, and we’ve passed those up before.
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I agree with sentiments I’ve seen expressed to the effect that the rush to generative AI is an opportunity to see best what is human; if human understanding isn’t the point of education then I don’t think there is a point to it. That said, it is only an opportunity, and we’ve passed those up before.
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Educators do not speak with one voice even on, say, generative AI in the classroom. There are resources and a certain kind of institutional power to be got by embracing it. Many parents are swayed by techno-determinism and market rhetoric. Students understandably want to secure what future they can.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Educators do not speak with one voice even on, say, generative AI in the classroom. There are resources and a certain kind of institutional power to be got by embracing it. Many parents are swayed by techno-determinism and market rhetoric. Students understandably want to secure what future they can.
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I used to think that, in the absence of administrative leadership — or rather, in the face of institutional weakness and resistance — some combination of teachers, students and parents might hold the line. I’m no longer convinced that there is enough agreement on what any such line is to be hopeful.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I used to think that, in the absence of administrative leadership — or rather, in the face of institutional weakness and resistance — some combination of teachers, students and parents might hold the line. I’m no longer convinced that there is enough agreement on what any such line is to be hopeful.
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They are doing so, of course, asymmetrically. Some schools are keeping their libraries, and the books in them. Some schools are keeping their humanities and basic science departments and language programs. Some schools are keeping tenure (though few or none are expanding it). Still, it’s a fight.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
They are doing so, of course, asymmetrically. Some schools are keeping their libraries, and the books in them. Some schools are keeping their humanities and basic science departments and language programs. Some schools are keeping tenure (though few or none are expanding it). Still, it’s a fight.
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I will add: there’s a sense in which we (I speak as a learner not a teacher now; or as both) have always had to fight to get an education out of institutions of learning. A capacity for gamification or proceduralism is built into any system. But the resources for fighting that fight are shrinking.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I will add: there’s a sense in which we (I speak as a learner not a teacher now; or as both) have always had to fight to get an education out of institutions of learning. A capacity for gamification or proceduralism is built into any system. But the resources for fighting that fight are shrinking.
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“it’s just a tool” becomes unconvincing when entrepreneurship means leveraging power to make it impossible for people to avoid your product, and creating problems for whomever doesn’t use it
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“it’s just a tool” becomes unconvincing when entrepreneurship means leveraging power to make it impossible for people to avoid your product, and creating problems for whomever doesn’t use it
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the single defining “new technology” of the 21st century is in fact nothing more than the subscription, an early modern innovation
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the single defining “new technology” of the 21st century is in fact nothing more than the subscription, an early modern innovation
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The @nsarchive.bsky.social Posts Declassified Documents on Operation Condor’s Dark History | This cross-border network of repression (launched 50 years ago in Chile) targeted hundreds of dissidents & opponents of right-wing regimes for kidnapping, torture & disappearance in the Southern Cone.
Operation Condor: A Network of Transnational Repression 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., November 26, 2025 - On General Augusto Pinochet’s 60th birthday, November 25, 1975, four delegations of Southern Cone secret police chieftains gathered in Santiago, Chile, at the inv...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The @nsarchive.bsky.social Posts Declassified Documents on Operation Condor’s Dark History | This cross-border network of repression (launched 50 years ago in Chile) targeted hundreds of dissidents & opponents of right-wing regimes for kidnapping, torture & disappearance in the Southern Cone.
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i wonder how much student loan debt facilitated the 75 million dollars that northwestern university just gave to the gov't to satiate their fascist extortion methods
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
i wonder how much student loan debt facilitated the 75 million dollars that northwestern university just gave to the gov't to satiate their fascist extortion methods
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Crazy how the CIA murdered her
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Crazy how the CIA murdered her
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this dog’s about to kick my ass in a shaw brothers movie
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
this dog’s about to kick my ass in a shaw brothers movie
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There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.
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Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.